Marley Montano Productions

08/21/2024

A few pictures from our recent event at the downtown library! Thank you SPARC 352, UF Center for Arts in Medicine, UF Center for Arts, Migration + Entrepreneurship, and Mellon Foundation!!

08/08/2024

Gainesville, Florida and Alachua County residents, join us this Saturday, August 10th, 2024 at the Downtown Headquarters Branch Library (401 E University Ave., Gainesville, FL 32601) at 2pm for “Voices From The Community,” the culminating event for our public speaking & communication skills youth enrichment program, Microphone Mentors. Meet us on the 3rd floor in meeting room A to hear youth voices from our program.
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and We will allow for time for questions, and feedback but we expect to end the event by 3pm, so don’t show up late and miss out on any part of the program. Presented by and Made possible by a grant from and the See you Saturday! Come ready to be inspired!! #352 #2024

08/01/2024

Our free youth enrichment program Microphone Mentors continues the conversation this Saturday! Thank you to .williams.794 the principal of Eastside High School for visiting our class and blessing us with a wealth of knowledge and inspiration!!
You can learn more about our grant funded mentorship program and sign up at www.microphonementors.com Pre-registration is NOT required. Teens (ages 12-18) are welcome to join us this Saturday, August 3rd, 2024 at the Cone Park Branch Library (2801 E University Ave, Gainesville, FL 32641) from 2pm to 4pm. We have guest speakers every week, and practice public speaking & communication skills through games, group exercises, and other fun activities. Food, snacks & beverages provided. Tag a friend, and leave a comment, or send a direct message if you have any questions! Microphone Mentors is presented by & Hosted by & and is made possible by a grant from , , , and the Thank you everyone!! See you Saturday! #2024

07/20/2024

SPARC 352 checking in, and giving our Microphone Mentors program a shout out!! Upcoming workshops: Saturday, July 20th, 27th, and August 3rd at the Cone Park Branch library, from 2pm-4pm!!!! FREE YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROGRAM FOR TEENS (AGES 12-18)! Learn more, and sign up at www.microphonementors.com Don't miss out on this valuable experience!! #352 #2024

07/16/2024

Our free youth enrichment program, Microphone Mentors is up & running!! Session 1 of 4 was this past Saturday, and we have 3 workshops coming up before hosting our first live event! Teens (ages 12-18), join us this Saturday, July 20th, 2024 at the Cone Park Branch Library from 2pm to 4pm. Learn public speaking, communication, leadership, and life skills, while boosting your self-confidence in a safe, and supportive environment! We have artists, entrepreneurs, and community builders of all types visiting these sessions, and contributing to the conversation! We hope you will join us!! If you live in East Gainesville, you really should not miss this! Please share, and tag anyone who might be interested! See you Saturday!!! For full details, visit www.microphonementors.com Thank you to , , , and the for making this possible! Presented by & Hosted by & Let’s build!!! 💪🎤✍️🗣️🔥❤️‍🔥‼️

07/15/2024

End of class photo from yesterday’s first Microphone Mentors session! Some teens had to leave early and missed the group picture, but thank you all for coming out!! It was a content filled workshop featuring conversation, education, performances, and connection! We learned a lot as a class, and we already see ways that we can improve, and expand the program! Thank you to our guest mentor Edward Lavagnino, owner & operator of Thank you to for sharing your poetry & wisdom with us! Thank you .forrest for the additional backup!! And thank you to for providing the venue!! Presented by & Hosted by & Made possible by a grant from and the Photo by Teens (ages 12-18), we have 3 more (2-hour) workshops, as well as a live event coming up on Saturday, August 10th, 2024!! Learn more at www.microphonementors.com Free to participate! #352 #2024

Microphone Mentors. Marley Montano Productions

07/12/2024

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07/12/2024

STARTS TOMORROW!! You can still sign up! Questions??.. Let us know!!

Only 1 more day! Spread the word: Free Youth Enrichment Program for Teens (Ages 12-18) in Gainesville, Florida. www.microphonementors.com Learn Public Speaking & Communication Skills! Program begins this Saturday, July 13th and will meet weekly (Saturdays, 2pm-4pm) at the Cone Park Branch Library for 4 weeks, culminating into a live event ("Voice From The Community") being held on Saturday, August 10th at the downtown Headquarters Branch Library. Please enroll online to secure your seat (and shirt), and to let us know that you'll be there. Learn the full details about the program, and enroll at www.microphonementors.com This program was created to benefit youth from the following neighborhoods: Duval, Lincoln Estates, Porters, Spring Hill, and Pleasant Street. The program is open to public, however teens from those neighborhoods will receive priority if there are a large number of students who enroll. Once again, please enroll online to secure your seat at www.microphonementors.com Presented by Marley Montano Productions & ARTSPEAKSgnv. Hosted by Marley The Messenger & E Stanley Richardson! Thank you to SPARC 352, UF Center for Arts in Medicine, UF Center for Arts, Migration + Entrepreneurship, and the Mellon Foundation for funding this community-centric program, and for their widespread support of the arts, entrepreneurship, and creative collaboration in Gainesville, Florida! #352 #2024

07/08/2024

Enrollment Deadline Extended 📣 “Microphone Mentors: A Public Speaking & Communication Skills Mentorship Program,” is a Free Youth Enrichment Program for Teens (Ages 12-18) in Gainesville, Florida! 🗣️🎤🔥❤️‍🔥‼️ Learn more and enroll at www.microphonementors.com Beginning Saturday, July 13th, 2024 at the Cone Park Branch Library (2801 E University Ave), teens will meet once a week (Saturdays) for 2 hours, 2pm-4pm. On week 5 (Saturday, August 10th), our program will culminate into a free, and open to the public, live event (“Voices From The Community”) being held at the downtown Headquarters Branch Library (401 E University Ave) in the meeting hall on the 3rd floor. We have extended the deadline for enrolling in the program to Friday, July 12th, the day before the program starts. *Enrollment guarantees your seat (and shirt 👕👚) but we are willing to accept participants once the program has already started, if you contact us. *This program was made possible by a grant from , , , and the This program was also created to benefit the following underserved neighborhoods: Duval, Lincoln Estates, Porters, Spring Hill, and Pleasant Street. *Teens from other neighborhoods may enroll as well, however youth from the neighborhoods listed above will have priority in the event that a large number of teens sign up. ✍️✍🏾✍🏽✍🏿 Tag people, and/or organizations that you think may be interested, share this post, and please help spread the word!! In addition to learning public speaking, and communication skills, this youth enrichment & empowerment program is also designed to build self-confidence, and to to help teens develop critical thinking skills! We hope you will join us as we work to build a better future for our community, and world by educating & empowering the youth!! Thank you again to & everyone else involved for believing in us, and for funding our program! Presented by: & Hosted by: & See you on the mic!! #352 #2024

07/07/2024

We are so proud to present this FREE YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROGRAM for TEENS (ages 12-18) in EAST GAINESVILLE, FL!! JOIN NOW to LEARN PUBLIC SPEAKING & COMMUNICATION SKILLS! 📣✍️🗣️🎤 Our program BEGINS SATURDAY, JULY 13TH, 2024. We will meet once a week (Saturdays) at the CONE PARK BRANCH LIBRARY (2801 E University Ave) from 2PM-4PM. After 4 (2-hour) workshops, the program will culminate into a live event on Saturday, August 10th at the downtown Headquarters Branch Library (401 E University Ave), in the meeting hall on the 3rd floor. If you know of any teens, or families of teens who either currently live in, or have previously lived in one of the following neighborhoods, please tag them: Duval, Lincoln Estates, Porters, Spring Hill, and Pleasant Street. This program is designed to teach teens how to organize and express themselves, as well as build their self-confidence! Presented by: and Hosted by: and Made possible by: and the LEARN MORE, READ FULL DETAILS, and ENROLL AT: MICROPHONEMENTORS.COM Please SHARE!!! #352 #2024

07/01/2024

Teens (ages 12-18) who are interested in learning public speaking, and general communications skills, visit microphonementors.com today! & are proud to present, “Microphone Mentors.” This FREE youth enrichment program runs July 13th through Aug 10th, 2024, will be hosted by & , and will also feature guest mentors (artists, entrepreneurs, community builders & more) from throughout the greater Gainesville area! The program consist of 4 (2-hour) workshops that will be held at the Cone Park Library Branch (2801 E University Ave.), with a culminating event taking place at the Headquarters Branch Library (401 E University Ave.) on Saturday, August 10th. This program was created to benefit teens in the following underserved neighborhoods, but anyone living in or around these neighborhoods is encouraged to enroll: Duval, Lincoln Estates, Porters, Spring Hill, and Pleasant Street. Teens who previously lived in these, or other neighborhoods in East Gainesville are also encouraged to participate. Learn tips, tricks, strategies, build your confidence, and more!! Visit the website for more info, and tag anyone who you think might be interested. Last but not least, thank you to and for making this mentorship program possible!!! #352 #2024

06/04/2024

Enrollment is open for Microphone Mentors! The program begins in July!! 👤🗣️🎤👏👤

Microphone Mentors. Marley Montano Productions

05/25/2024

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05/22/2024

Hosting The 2nd Annual Teen Battle of The Bands last Saturday at The Tower Road Branch Library! Here's me sharing some of my history as a Hip Hop artist & MusicGNV grant recipient! Shout out to Upbeat GNV!! #352 #2024

05/17/2024

This Saturday, May 18th, 2024 from 2pm to 4pm will be hosting The 2nd Annual Teen Battle of The Bands at The Tower Road Branch Library in Gainesville, Florida. 1 group winner, and 1 solo act winner will be chosen to receive free studio time at The judges for this year’s event include: and Sponsored by: and Thank you to for organizing this free, and open to the public event!! For more info, visit the EVENTS section of marleythemessenger.com or marleymontano productions.com 🤳👀🤩❤️‍🔥SEE YOU SATURDAY!! #2024

05/16/2024

Things are moving fast! This week, I along with the other grant awardees met with SPARC 352 at their office located at the UF Center for Arts, Migration + Entrepreneurship. We discussed timelines, logistics and more. Next month we will begin the process of promoting our program, "Microphone Mentors," and we launch in July! More info coming very soon!! Thank you to my fiscal partner, and great friend E Stanley Richardson, and his organization ARTSPEAKSgnv! We both thank SPARC 352, UF Center for Arts in Medicine, UF Center for Arts, Migration + Entrepreneurship, and the Mellon Foundation for making this vision possible! Stay tuned Gainesville, we have a lot in store for you!! #2024

🎉GRANT UPDATE
This Monday we welcomed aboard our amazing artist grant winners! Stay tuned as we roll out information about each of their incredible projects.
Click below to reveal to the project titles 👀
Microphone Mentors 🎤
Unapologetic: Vol. 2 🎨
Memory Quilt 🪡
Recipes for Belonging 🍽
Youth Music Mentoring Program 🎼
WeCAN: Community Art Narrative Workshop Series, Celebrating Black Joy and Resilience
Our Village Film 🎬
Stop The Violence GNV
Gainesville Proper: A Celebration of Historically Black Communities of Gainesville, Florida through Poetry, Stories, Photos and Visual Art ✒️
UF Center for Arts in Medicine Mellon Foundation UF Center for Arts, Migration + Entrepreneurship

05/15/2024

This Saturday, May 18th at The Tower Road Branch Library, Marley Montano Productions will be providing sound, and hosting the 2nd Annual Teen Battle of The Bands! TEEN BANDS and SOLO ACTS can still sign up until Thursday, May 16th. This year, there will be 2 winners (1 group/band, and 1 solo act). Both winners will receive free studio time at Heartwood Soundstage! Visit the link below for more info, or to apply! Please share, or tag someone you think may be interested in participating. We hope that you will join us THIS SATURDAY for the 2nd Annual Teen Battle of The Bands, hosted by Marley The Messenger!! MORE INFO/APPLY at: https://www.aclib.us/BattleOfTheBands Thank you to Alachua County Library District for putting on this event! #352 #2024

Join us as we fill the Tower Road Branch with music!

05/03/2024

Presented by Marley Montano Productions, hosted by Marley The Messenger and Purple Kloud (Arts in Medicine alumni), this is a FREE Recording & Music Making Workshop series for Teens! We have been hosting these sessions since September 2023 at the Tower Road Branch library in Gainesville, FL. However, we have started to expand to other branches! Visit www.marleythemessenger.com/teen-music-makers fore more info. Feel free to comment or send a direct message here too if you have questions!

🎶 Teens are invited to our Teen Music Maker Workshop led by local artists Marley The Messenger and Purple Kloud on April 17 at 2:30 p.m. at Alachua Branch and May 1 at 4 p.m. at Tower Road Branch.

Learn how to create songs and podcasts using Ableton Live and get the hacks, tricks, and secrets of recording.

April 17: attend.aclib.us/event/10296096
May 1: attend.aclib.us/event/9732870